Well when you say I spent time with Bashar al-Assad, you might have added that I spent time with him in Buckingham Palace when he was a guest of Her Majesty the Queen, [al-Assad] literally living in the spare room at Buckingham Palace, the night before going down the Mall in an open-topped coach with Her Majesty on a royal trot round central London. George Gallaway v Piers Morgan, Youtube 2024
My grief is for Syria, for the Syrian people. ibid.
That is not a justification for making matters worse. ibid.
He’s a dictator like all the Arab leaders are dictators. ibid.
Guantanamo Bay is still open. ibid.
Al-Assad’s jails were used as black prisons by us during the War on Terror. ibid.
The double-standard is what I can’t except. ibid.